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Good Morning America welcome to daybreak
Africa from the Voice of America but in

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Washington today is Monday November 25th
take your some of the stories we are

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covering both counting is on the way
Sunday's Guinea-Bissau presidential election

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may well not be as well this Wednesday
Presidential Election Day Care Program go

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girl. Bill thank you in

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a big time for our walk for there
or you might get. A pretty cool

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feel young fellow is the executive
director of now maybe as the largest human

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rights organization the death toll
from Saturday's landslide in chaos was

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a book called Content has
risen to at least 50 and

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a new executive director of the u.n.

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Aid agency says it is possible
to end the epidemic as

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a public health threat by 2030.

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What he. Did. Well on.

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When he be a man is the

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a new executive director of the unit and
Zimbabwe's vice president returns home

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from a trip well there is

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a controversy over who did not go to the
airport to welcome him those stories plus

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. Coming up on Daybreak Africa.

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Vote counting is underway in Sunday's
Guinea-Bissau presidential election where

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incumbent president Jose Maria vast is
seeking reelection for another 5 years

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a total of 12 candidates contest including
many challenger and former Prime

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Minister. Perra analysts say Mr vast whose
1st term was tarnished by political

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infighting including the sacking of his
prime minister just weeks before. Sunday's

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vote is likely to face

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a strong challenge the preliminary results
are expected on these November 28 and if

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no candidate received more than 50 percent
of the vote Iran off between the 2 top

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candidates will take place on December
29th. The people of NY be be I mean beyond

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will vote this Wednesday in presidential
election in which President gang gob is

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seek seek and find a time fill Yanga Lol
the executive director of NY may be

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a writes the country's largest human rights
organization says while president is

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expected to win re-election his margin
of victory will likely be smaller due to

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voter discontent with the economy some
Namibians also concerned about what they say

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is the government's failure to fight
corruption and I may be as Fisheries Minister

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Bernard Esol was released Sunday after

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a high court judge ruled that they won't
follow his arrest was inviolate he was

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a risk to start the day for legit involvement
in awarding fishing licenses to Islam

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they can fund him in return for bribes
you're not alone says the prosecutors have

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to get another water into because there
is enough evidence today allegations

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against the minister I can confirm what
you just said that the Minister of

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fisheries one of these. Years
but. The big case in the

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Made in the I chord to secure his release
for reasons that there were times for you

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. 8 proved to be invited the fact that the
court says that they want to evaluate

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what is the prosecution going to do or
they have to or to end Valley to Iran for

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his arrest they flap these there are indeed
prima fascia evidence that many stars

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and others use not arrowed there is another
may need. 3 other persons who were also

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involved there is pretty much every day
that they are indeed guilty bribery in the

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fishing industry of course the presidential
election the 27th which is on Wednesday

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telephones the phone but I love her because
I think one of the greatest. Is the aim

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of this current government is that of
corruption their government they know maybe

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it was being corrupt
it's not only now it's

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a culture you have heard similar things
big in you haven't heard about similar

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things inside Africa States capture the
same Yeah right in America it did not start

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yesterday or with this current government
is started way back but said 40

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to 50 years ago the president
President be challenge by think about

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different candidates what the chances
here that any of these can make

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a dent do you think that is the election
that president is going to win and I say

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a foregone conclusion and I end up is
going to win it the question is To what

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extent but yeah definitely going to win it
the human rights monitoring it advocacy

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organization. This time around while of
course they're already part of my get the

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less the same stage before because people
are in this country I really angry

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affairs about corruption on their
part of the governing party and

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they are seemingly no turning to what
opposition political parties they think is

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the basis for us they really think that all
those flop or you're certainly going to

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win they are going to win with much reduced
my character thank you for speaking

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with us thank you very much James but it's
Filyaw 9 below is the executive director

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of NY maybe s law just human rights
organization he was speaking with us from the

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capital they hold the death toll from
Saturday's lens lie in chaos West buckled

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County has risen to at least 50
called into the Cain stunned

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a newspaper to must lie in flooding caused
by heavy rains have also left thousands

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hopeless visual said rescue operations will
continually on Sunday as more real gems

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. Reports from Nairobi some of the injured
are receiving treatment at nearby

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hospitals while many more was still missing.
Heavy rains that are being experienced

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in the country caused havoc in Westport
County. Including transport brought to

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a standstill the road that connects
Kenya to South Sudan has been rendered

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impossible as all roads bridges were cut
off was governor John Dingle bore said

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that rescued customs temporarily camping
out schools and churches that are saying

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to reside at.

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Kenya's president or on an ng
with the affected families in

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a statement said that all residents living
in landslide prone areas in the country

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to be relocated

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a resident who managed to escape death
but lost her 3 children there it's the

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horrible situation that she encountered.
I called everyone and none of

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them responded I then called my in-laws he
had me he came and pulled my hand but I

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told them to pull my head my kid that I was
breastfeeding had already died and they

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too that was clipping in

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a different room they dragged to.
The most affected areas. Which

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took heavy casualties from the tragedy
it was difficult call in to Commissioner

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Apolo appeals to and wishes to offer to
leave to the effect but sounds as heavy

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rains hit as the risky operations.

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Forces that could put that experience Lance
tried to move before the target is tax

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.

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The Department of Kenya has warned over
heavy rain throughout the week us regions

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likely to be affected in the country
include West and Northeast on and central

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regions including narrow
reporting 4. In Arabic

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today's Monday Nov 25th You're listening
to daybreak Africa on the Voice of America

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James about a Washington
daybreak Africa Time 14 and

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a half minutes past the hour Zimbabwe's
63 year old vice president Constantine

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returned home on Saturday healthier than
when he left 4 months ago for medical

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treatment in China he arrived in a charter
Chinese play and was met on arrival at

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a Robert Gibbs Mugabe International Airport
by the Chinese deputy ambassador to

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Zimbabwe as well as members of the
one guy's family the arrival sparked

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a romance of

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a split between President Amerson Gaga and
his vice president. Personally of the

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opposition Movement for Democratic Change
if you have to get out of the underworld

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so that their money. Does not make sense.

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Or. To end up. And you suddenly do you
or I know this is sin but when do

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we know that Brigham got to us think if
we said we give their call then we must

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report to the airport and we're going to
be singing and praising that you've done

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so this time around the drums
working that the last one would be

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a member as we get to the bottom go be

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a board meeting to see if we need to
leave. But some of them believe you know

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members not being that didn't do kind of
fun thing which is one of the important

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he's only good times bad for the president
and the vice president that's what's

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true because doing that is devices in
the Republic and you can it is the big

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concern is that you don't need to bring
that to the incumbent president and he will

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get because other people or these give you
what you want so too I've got his looks

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and what do they that is if you just
write. What could be the fight on about me

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it's. Not just what it gives to will they
you teach you when you go into the army

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do

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a little bit from during the impeachment
time don't want to be as easy fix that the

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money Israel will not go to the
local got beat them up and make

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a deal between now and I'm going to end
it all I don't think that will that was

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allowed to be if it is the only of the
diplomacy that really given to you in going

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to go to the impeachment that that do not
want to bring what we have to expect

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families from time to be

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a full functioning in between the
factions to be dark come on those days

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chairperson of the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa

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she spoke from our Bull's-Eye while you
with gets to be of us then Bob was service

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but from one Zimbabwe as an M.P.'s law may
come on occasion pomo says speculations

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of

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a split between President I'm assuming Gaga
and his vice president Constantino Towanda

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misleading we're going to work hard to
raise God's word is more. Supple crumpled

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we're going to become Greece when we were
going through the long term. I don't

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think somebody got to go to school.
Because I. Think that what purpose there

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was no one and there
could be. One. And the

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2nd the usual. Issues like. Blood
between the brick and the.

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So what do we know God on the beat
really good can it do when it comes.

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To protocol people just there
are people that won't go agree.

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To it but big wanted to give you

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a little you know the way the I voted
wasn't conducted the damn thing the message

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window was open and welcomed by the Deby
detainees humbucker that was the bubble

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didn't do them that's when it changed
what I'm saying to your flight school

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championed by Christians choices that you
want to cram the way value you want to be

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will come home and point was the secret
to get injured country out of the

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country when there was no true way you
could get to each point to reason that we

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just wanted to dig into this kind of movie
we've got so much good for the. People

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of business any as being the new Did you
know because if we didn't have such

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a window and none of the leading none of
the of who's doing any kind of friction

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one of those like poor pretty. Wants
to see the country being to fight and

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fight Israel is what impact this one thing
that can do you see history here too

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between all of

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a lot of contrivance very interesting and
it's but I don't think the big thing that

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can do say thank God. We
picked up what does. Go up.

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By. Molecule Komo is a form of Zanu p.f.

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Lawmaker. We're speaking with gets to be

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a very symbolic service from West Nicholas

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a month I believe south province the new
executive director of the United Nations

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agency Nates says it's
possible to end the disease as

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a public health threat
by 2030 but when he be

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a young man says while the science is they
had to make it possible to fight to end

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the epidemic it's both

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a human rights and social justice struggle
this coming Sunday December 1st is World

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is day and if aim of this year's
commemoration is communities make and their

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friends tomorrow Tuesday in Nairobi Kenya
miss Beyond the amount will launch

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a new report highlighted the importance
of communities in the fight against HIV

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Aids she says communities have been and
continue to be the lifeblood of an

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effective aids response.
When they begin the war.

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Was that they then it was ordinary
people of sick kids but if they did need

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to have been. Positive members of the
of sun would be the man who wants.

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To fly aboard those who are
suffering. And then you won't

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walk until Monday night and
Kenya for people who posted

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it all. The way to age
12. Being there who go.

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To work up until then I. Would say
and I want to you to just give us

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a little report card on HIV Aids globally
and particularly Africa in terms of the

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new infections the treatment and the
number of deaths you know enough of it is

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the growing for. The most with the
fact that. They do look to you women

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girls of Africa where equal rights under
the why they're breakable picture now monk

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there is much higher than that to

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a 1000000 and that's how to do we our
social know what do I need I need

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that's a woman and

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a good husband go tell right that the
control of our own body that she opened her

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1st sexual encounter Eve Well for me was
someone she had good children to love

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because we govern itself to face
up to God and 1st. We didn't even

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know understood by

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a we must be able to be on video by 20
but I think our government will need I

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think more even to be badly wanted indeed

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a new sleep would take our girls and only
enough to do You mentioned disgusting but

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development gold number 3 do you not
initiative hope and the Aids epidemic by 20

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very deep do you think this is a

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t v bull and what do you see are some of
the challenges absolutely it is the genes

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of outspokenly the same as pork to fix up
turny found cheap troubling is found to

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did America was quote you get it
to the inside that did he get

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a sense what he's told to be pretty tough
to finance the time for all that to me

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for prevention we have but what keeping
people away from the idea opportunity

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the sunshine know that people do believe
people can see as well as the role

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that. Really being when and
God did not forgot the a.p.

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Poll we aired t.q.

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Called merely tease it was cause he's got
this idiot right so those people believe

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surely encountered lol make me didn't
eat that is just before right.

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To. See one. That.

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December 1st is is there any particular
message for our big global community about

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this disease my main.

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Tool.

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I do not. Know. You know.

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Someone. Buying me thanks.

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But I am. Now more people.

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Thank you very much for speaking with
us on Daybreak Africa and once again

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congratulations on your appointment as
the new executive director of the units

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thank you very much thank you very much
like to thank you for. Want to be our

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humanity the new executive director of
the United Nations HIV agency she was

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speaking with us from the capital Nairobi.

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As far as the other time they've recovered
here are some oligopoly Nigeria

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a very good Monday morning to do something.
James we begin the sports in France

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with Martin champion. Record
holder elite keep juggling is

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a $21000.00 Ward athletics male athletes
of the year 35 year old elite keep to get

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beat for all the contestants to retain the
awards during the would up it is gala in

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Monaco on Saturday night early in the
year won the London Marzan in the course

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record of 2 minutes 37 seconds before
making history as the 1st man to run the

00:22:41
marathon on the 2 R.'s when he completed
the imo as 159 challenge in Vienna Austria

00:22:47
in one all 59 minutes 40.2 seconds on
October 12th this yeah I hope I inspire

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a lot of generation as opposed to

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a human family and I trust.
Us to really post even life.

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In general I am really happy happy happy
for. Me from athletics to basketball where

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the draw ceremony for the 2nd round 16
of the basketball after League 2020

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qualifying tournament was held at

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a house of basketball in the capital
city of Abidjan this past weekend the 16

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teams were divided into
2 groups of g. And f.

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Of 8 teams each and games will be played
in yellow one day Cameron and Kigali in

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Rwanda group games will take place in your
own day from the from the $26.00 to do

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some of the 1st group h.

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Would take policing to Galle from December
17th to December the 22nd 21000 in the

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top 2 teams from each group will advance
to the semifinals where the teams that

00:23:49
finished in the 1st 3 places will qualify
for the basketball African League regular

00:23:54
season in March 2020 in Gulf News the
Gary Player imitation of the wars leading

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charity golf series which currently
stages 6 an all events in the u a e

00:24:06
u s 8 China Japan Yuki and South Africa has
helped the player foundation raise more

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than $64000000.00 for impoverished children
around the world. The South African leg

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of the 21000 Gary Player which ended
this weekend at Sun City in Africa was

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events 20th anniversary. And his
team including Irish popstar Brian

00:24:32
McFadden where this year's tournament
Rena's some of those who took part in this

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year's tournament in South Africa recounts
the I experience is we need to make the

00:24:41
sacrifices and giving back
to the community into.

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Giving. That does it for this
edition of daybreak sports

00:25:03
subsidy. It's back to
you James in Washington

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thank you something have a good
day briefly before we leave you

00:25:13
a summary of Africa news vote counting
is on the way is Sunday's Guinea-Bissau

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presidential election with

00:25:18
a comment President Jose Mario Vazquez is
seeking reelection for another 5 years it

00:25:24
was of 12 candidates
contest or include him

00:25:27
a challenger and former prime minister
Domingo's Pereira unless they missed

00:25:32
a vast whose 1st term was tarnished by
political infighting he quoted the sacking

00:25:37
of his prime minister before
Sunday's vote is likely to face

00:25:41
a strong challenge and that is it for this
Monday November 25th edition of daybreak

00:25:46
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00:27:07
there today is Monday November 25th this
is video ways international edition I'm

00:27:13
Lori London in Washington coming up another
billionaire enters the Democratic race

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to challenge President Donald Trump I just
don't think people are going to buy it

00:27:23
they just put

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a bunch of money and maybe they argument
is hey I've got more money than the guy in

00:27:28
the White House I don't think they're going
to buy that I think they want some one

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different Hong Kong voters
come out in record to send

00:27:36
a clear message to China
also had a bill to ban u.s.

00:27:39
Shark fin trade passes
in the house and it's

00:27:42
a step closer to becoming law so
on today's international edition.

00:27:49
The Pentagon says Navy secretary Richard
Spencer submitted his resignation at the

00:27:53
request of the prince secretary mark
expert who it says had lost trust and

00:27:57
confidence in Spencer because of a
lack of the secretary of the u.s.

00:28:01
Navy has been fired over a
case of a Navy Seal facing

00:28:06
a disciplinary proceeding a.p.

00:28:08
Correspondent Ben Thomas reports.

00:28:18
The Pentagon says Navy secretary Richard
Spencer submitted his resignation at the

00:28:22
request of the French secretary Marc
aspart who it says had lost trust and

00:28:26
confidence in Spencer because of

00:28:28
a lack of candor over conversations with
the White House involving the handling of

00:28:32
the seal case President Trump tweeted last
Thursday that he would not let the Navy

00:28:36
take away Chief Petty Officer Edward
Gallagher's Trident pin which designates him

00:28:41
the c.e.o.

00:28:41
But had been international security form
Saturday Spencer said he did not consider

00:28:46
a tweet to be an order and it would take

00:28:48
a formal order to stop the Navy review
board which is set to meet December 2nd to

00:28:52
consider Gallagher's case Gallagher was
acquitted of murder in the 2017 stabbing

00:28:57
death of a captured Islamic
state militant in Iraq but

00:29:00
a military jury did convict him of posing
with the corpse Ben Thomas Washington

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well voters came out in droves in
Hong Kong's local elections with

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a record 71 percent of the city's $4100000.00
registered voters casting balance

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Sunday interest was high in the normally
low profile district council elections

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pro-democracy protests have continued even
as they've become increasingly violent

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the main complain about elections was long
lines some which extended out of polling

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stations 4 blocks joining us from Hong
Kong is the awakened correspondent Bill

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Gallo Bill I understand some of the results
have already come in the media really

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clear that voting was very popular. But
it wasn't exactly clear what that large

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turnout with mean. And we're receiving
some initial results that pro-democracy

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forces appear at it right message when the
initial results showed that most every

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Kurd if I think at it had run with winning
that trend had continued not quite as

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decisive but as we think 275 I believe
pro-democracy candidate when compared to

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about 40 probably stand it no doubt right
now unquestionably voters have been.

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Message both to Beijing and to the
government that things are not Ok they want

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change will it actually make

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a difference will Hong Kong have the ability
to actually make those changes that

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democracy seekers are looking for so that's
the huge question here actually because

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these elections were for district council
members which are largely powerless these

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are basically the local politicians who
decide things they take complaints about

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excess of noise in the neighborhood or the
location of bus stops things like that

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they have no power to pass legislation the
main reason the vote was important is

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that it was the 1st chance for Hong
Kong or east of the since the massive

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pro-democracy antigovernment protests
that they can play now there is

00:30:59
a bit more nuance to this and that in Hong
Kong squads I democratic system. Also

00:31:05
have the ability to choose Hong Kong's
chief executive which is not directly

00:31:10
elected they also have the ability to run
and Legislative Council elections which

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that's the legislature here that is only
half chosen directly by voters so it's

00:31:20
complicated it could have implications
for the future as it relates to the

00:31:24
political dynamic here but immediately no
nothing has changed the primary value in

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that is that it's

00:31:30
a big message to Beijing whether or not
they listen the problem and less likely

00:31:35
than anything at this point you know we
haven't really seen much response from

00:31:38
Beijing so far there have been state media
commentators in the mainland suggest

00:31:43
that there was Western interference that
all the media had come here and talk to

00:31:46
pro-democracy forces and sort of Gen that
banned the Chinese sentiment which is an

00:31:51
interesting strategy to take but if you
spend 10 minutes here you'll find that

00:31:55
there is widespread anti-government
sentiment it's not hard to find.

00:32:04
And speaking of elections while 59 other
countries of elected female heads of state

00:32:09
the United States has yet to shatter what
former Democratic nominee for president

00:32:14
Hillary Clinton called the highest hardest.
Glass Ceiling Clinton's last President

00:32:19
Donald Trump in 2016 May have blazed

00:32:22
a trail for 5 female candidates currently
running for president in 2020 but his

00:32:27
video is Brian Patton reports
it also reinforced doubts that

00:32:31
a woman can be elected to the nation's
highest office. Looking back at her 2 girls

00:32:37
and 16 I like the feel of the Hillary Clinton
recently said gender stereotypes and

00:32:43
sexism contributed to her loss and there
have been slights against women and all

00:32:50
kinds of sexism and misogyny so none of
this is new treatment of women from calling

00:32:55
Clinton and nasty woman to regularly
critiquing women on their physical appearance

00:33:00
combined with his anti-abortion view
dish on nominees in racially divisive

00:33:05
pronouncements to help

00:33:07
a record number of women to run in the last
few midterm congressional elections now

00:33:13
multiple women are one for the 2020
Democratic presidential nomination the

00:33:18
contenders include 3 u.s.

00:33:20
Senators Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts
California's Kaamelott Harris and Amy

00:33:26
club

00:33:26
a chart of Minnesota all face and electability
hurdle specific to their gender we

00:33:32
have a certain archetype for president in
this country it is it has as always been

00:33:36
a man we think of leadership and
particularly presidential leadership in

00:33:41
a certain way and women don't fit into that
yet female Democratic candidates can be

00:33:49
particularly vulnerable to the gender
bias attacks that cast them as overly

00:33:54
compassionate and not just talking to men
in advocating causes like expanded health

00:33:59
care for the poor that probably reinforces
existing views of the Democratic Party

00:34:05
when sometimes to win that majority you
need to cut against the stereotype

00:34:11
a little bit after the Clinton lost
some wonder if a male Democrat stands

00:34:15
a better chance of winning over. Or Americans
who voted for Trump and pulling out

00:34:19
of $918.00 but today's Democratic candidates
reject any notion that now is not

00:34:25
their times putting more women in positions
of power leads to progress and it's not

00:34:32
always easy but you don't doubt what
you don't fight for another Democratic

00:34:37
contender former Vice President Joe Biden
recently criticized Elizabeth Warren as

00:34:42
angry and on yielding thing
to warn responded in

00:34:45
a campaign e-mail saying I'm angry and I
own and the women today's women candidates

00:34:50
are not shy about calling out perceived
Texas attacks or double standards in how

00:34:56
they are perturb I think it's opening
everyone's eyes to hold on is that the way I

00:35:00
would treat

00:35:00
a male candidate and that's good for all
of us recent elections indicate growing

00:35:05
female support for Democrats in polls show
and erosion of support for Trump among

00:35:10
women women will play

00:35:11
a critical role in the outcome of
the 2020 election including whether

00:35:16
a woman finally breaks the
presidential class ceiling drawing

00:35:20
a crowd viewing news Washington and former
New York mayor and billionaire media

00:35:25
mogul Michael Bloomberg has now jumped
into the race launching his Democratic

00:35:31
presidential campaign with an ad praising
his accomplishments and listing his goals

00:35:35
for the country a p correspondent
Julie Walker reports like

00:35:39
a Bloomberg officially launches his
Democratic presidential campaign with an ad

00:35:43
praising his accomplishments and listing
his goals for the country yet begins with

00:35:48
the announcer talking about Bloomberg and
photos of the former New York City mayor

00:35:52
over the years.

00:35:59
911 gun control and climate change all
examples of what the ad touts. Bloomberg

00:36:06
jumps it to the Democratic primary late
reflecting his concern no current candidate

00:36:10
can be president. This message
yet is brought about the. The

00:36:17
$1000000.00 t.v.

00:36:18
By I'm Julie was. Here are
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00:36:25
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00:36:33
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00:36:39
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00:36:44
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00:36:47
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00:37:11
People in Israel of expressed mixed reactions
to the news that British are British

00:37:16
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel
has been indicted on corruption charges

00:37:21
his supporters believe the charges are
fabricated and his opponents are calling for

00:37:26
his resignation Netanyahu is vowing to
fight back but it's not clear how long he

00:37:31
can hold on to power after the
indictment. Reports the embattled

00:37:38
prime minister was defiant after the
Israel's attorney general announced the

00:37:42
indictment Thursday could have been avoided
in this evening we are witnessing an

00:37:47
attempted coup against the prime minister
with false charges and they contaminated

00:37:52
and then Densher this investigation process
Netanyahu has been indicted on charges

00:37:56
of bribery fraud and breach of trust in
3 long running corruption cases he's

00:38:01
seeking to convince his supporters that
the country's entire political system is

00:38:06
affected by corruption and political bias
when it was overthrown if you will invent

00:38:12
I think you need to be blind in order not
to see that something wrong is going on

00:38:16
among the police. Investigators and the
prosecution of Netanyahu support their scam

00:38:20
out to protest the charges following the
announcement that I want to let you look

00:38:24
at the King to tell Netanyahu you will never
March alone and I came to say that all

00:38:28
of the fabricators of this ridiculous and
abominable coup within it won't succeed

00:38:32
you simply won't succeed but many Israelis
say it is time for Netanyahu to resign

00:38:38
it is on the road to this one finger both
the prime minister was continuing with

00:38:43
this while being indicted for 6. Years
of whom he will stand trial for

00:38:50
how he broke the law and also
good. Management countries to

00:38:57
the state of Israel the longest serving
prime minister in Israel's history

00:39:02
Netanyahu has been unable to form

00:39:04
a ruling coalition after 2 back to back
elections this year he's indictment adds to

00:39:10
the concern about the state of the country's
leadership I am very disappointed that

00:39:14
for a whole year we don't have

00:39:15
a government. It's disappointing I don't
know what will be and I can see that it's

00:39:22
not elections will lead to results that
are very different. It's a little bit of

00:39:28
a mess but we'll see this is a
democracy and eventually things have

00:39:32
a nature of our resolve in themselves 1st
this announcement further complicates

00:39:37
he's arounds pattern lies political
system in which neither Netanyahu nor his

00:39:42
closest rival banning guns
has been able to form

00:39:46
a government following Israel's
2nd election in September

00:39:50
a 3rd election could be held
later this year as lot it's

00:39:54
a hoax the oh no swashing done.

00:40:01
U.s.

00:40:01
House of Representatives passed legislation
last week to ban the use of you of shark

00:40:06
fin trade and now awaits final passage
in the Senate the demand for shark fin

00:40:12
incentivizes shark finning the cruel
and wasteful practice of remove. Being

00:40:17
a shark spins at feet and throwing it
back overboard where it drowns starves to

00:40:22
death or is eaten alive
by other fish and just

00:40:25
a rhino an elephant populations have
declined due to the demand from their horns

00:40:29
and tasks the sharks in trade is jeopardizing
the continued survival of many shark

00:40:34
populations Joining us to talk about this
just passed legislation in the House of

00:40:39
Representatives was Whitney Webber campaign
director with Oceana nonprofit ocean

00:40:44
provide protection organization thanks
for being with us so it sounds like the

00:40:48
shark fin trade is moved a step
closer to being banned it is

00:40:52
a major victory basically it gets the u.s.

00:40:55
Out of the shark fin trade and the problem
with this trade is that. The fins from

00:41:02
up to $73000000.00 sharks and up in
this horrific trade every year and is

00:41:09
driving a practice known as sinning which
is the removal of the shark's fin aboard

00:41:14
a vessel and then dumping the rest of
the body back into the ocean so just

00:41:17
retaining the fins which is just decimating
shark populations around the world and

00:41:21
obviously just a cruel and
inhumane practice so the u.s.

00:41:25
Has actually banned finning but unfortunately
we still import and export thins with

00:41:30
other countries many of which do not have
similar protections for sharks in place

00:41:36
and so we end up with you know these fin
fish in our marketplace and are none the

00:41:42
wiser for it so we really want to close
that loophole and just say no to shark fins

00:41:48
are you saying that this is done to
these animals while they're still alive

00:41:52
absolutely yes it's horrible why well the
food is often the most valuable part of

00:41:58
the shark it's used in
a soup it's considered

00:42:01
a delicacy in some countries
we can go for up to $100.00

00:42:05
a ball and so the rest of the shark is often
not as valuable and they want to save

00:42:09
space for the valuable parts so they just
dump the body back into the ocean and

00:42:14
they they die a very slow painful
awful. Death also saw the u.s.

00:42:19
Really needs to be

00:42:20
a leader in this and close our doors to the
to the trade completely We were hoping

00:42:25
to be the 1st g.

00:42:26
20 country to do so Canada beat us to
it earlier this year but when the u.s.

00:42:30
Steps up to lead on issues like this other
countries follow and are really hoping

00:42:34
to make it happen what countries are seeing
the most demand for this product it's

00:42:38
primarily out of Hong Kong China those
areas but again we are still you know

00:42:44
a participant in the fin trade we actually
have 12 states that have banned it at

00:42:49
the state level which is fantastic
but because we don't have

00:42:52
a federal ban the fence can still be shipped
through interstate commerce so we're

00:42:57
we're seeing states like California that
had bans for years but they're still able

00:43:01
to get such shipments of Finn's through
their ports on to other countries or what

00:43:05
have you and so that's problem number one
problem number 2 is that 11 state closes

00:43:11
its door to this marketplace the state
next door typically pops up with

00:43:14
a whole new shocks in market that they
didn't have before so we just need

00:43:18
a blanket federal dam Why do why does the
world need sharks why does it matter that

00:43:23
millions of sharks are on the decline with
sharks are important in their own right

00:43:29
because they've been here before the
dinosaur and we don't want to be at any part

00:43:33
in in their rapid rapid decline which we
are certainly contributing to but they are

00:43:38
also apex predators and so they really are
important for ocean ecosystems in that

00:43:42
they manage the food web so once you take
out an apex predator you just have chaos

00:43:47
and the food chain below you and then
finally you know it is also kind of an

00:43:51
economic argument and we are seeing
states like Florida that have

00:43:55
a huge diving industry that will really be
impacted by lower shark populations and

00:44:01
that we have folks that go out in this
country and just want to see sharks they go

00:44:05
shark diving in Florida alone we actually
looked at this and shark diving not you

00:44:10
know snorkeling or I want to see

00:44:11
a turtle they want to go shark diving those
folks are driving 221 $1000000.00. A

00:44:17
direct expenditures into Florida every
year he talked about the hotel restaurant

00:44:21
and everything in their act well looking
at $377000000.00 when you compare that to

00:44:26
our national export 2016
that number is $850000.00

00:44:33
total for the u.s.

00:44:34
No you've got these people that rely on
going out in the water and seen sharks and

00:44:39
diving with sharks they're really seeing

00:44:42
a significant difference these days than
we used to be seeing in the water here

00:44:46
some years ago All right Whitney Weber
she is campaign director with Oceana

00:44:50
a nonprofit ocean Protection Organization
thank you for being with us you're

00:44:55
listening to international edition back in

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00:46:06
International Edition continues heads of
state and governments of the 6 member

00:46:10
Central African economic and
monetary community or c.

00:46:13
Mack are meeting in your one day to foster.
Regional integration and speed process

00:46:19
an economic bloc said to be the least
developed on the African continent Moki Edwin

00:46:25
the reports from your one day about Seebach
development is slowed by the spill the

00:46:30
spillover of the Boko Haram crisis in the
north of Cameroon the carnage and. And

00:46:37
political tensions in Cameroon Gabon and
equitorial gamey. Some of the world's

00:46:44
longest serving leaders.
Make change from God

00:46:51
born if you try to get me buy and sell
goods to the come on board the markets of

00:46:56
kill c located on the boundary with the 2
nobody in states I discussing the heads

00:47:02
of states of the economy

00:47:03
a money tree community of Central African
states say Mike which consists of

00:47:08
a good try Guinea got chod Central African
Republic Cameroon Congo Brazzaville

00:47:16
Cameron and vegetable fruits

00:47:19
a much Jim who says he'd like to see free
movement of people between same member

00:47:25
states know from what I knew where he is
between the West and government. Where he

00:47:32
comes from I'm God born skeptics
only privy to there are 60 it's

00:47:36
a regular police and
customs check points on

00:47:39
a boat that other control points which they
have realized illegally extorting money

00:47:45
from commuters in November 2017
semi cancel States meeting in

00:47:52
charge said they had reached

00:47:55
a milestone agreement to lift visa
requirements for its citizens traveling within

00:48:00
the region not broke. But to govern is Born
rule. Political Consultants it was said

00:48:06
Mike says that except for the border between
China and Cameroon west it is travel

00:48:12
freely nothing has changed. You know this
is something they carried out as this

00:48:19
year on why so much growth is slow and
projects are hardly implemented indicate

00:48:25
that countries are reluctant to open up
to each other due to security threats and

00:48:30
corruption. He says it is imperative
for said market member states to make

00:48:36
movements between its citizens visa free
so they can benefit from the opportunities

00:48:42
that huge markets of close to 60000000
people. The economic growth rates in Central

00:48:48
Africa is barely 1.5 percent the president
of the Republic of Congo Denis.

00:48:56
Say's the region needs to reexamine
some of its policies to speed growth.

00:49:03
Support gays are saying what is

00:49:05
a regional integration they have been asking
for to be successful he and his peers

00:49:11
should 1st of all provide basic
facilities like rules air transport

00:49:17
telecommunications and electricity
infrastructure he says they have to tackle

00:49:22
corruption which is making their country's
poor raw He says while waiting for

00:49:27
funding to develop the infrastructure
he and Cameroon's president's point b.

00:49:32
Have decided to build

00:49:34
a rude linking the town of planks in his
country and in Cameroon semi-conscious

00:49:41
plans to create regional airline routes
that link the 6 countries interstates Osby

00:49:47
to the universities but again Bush said he
doubts the ability to execute the plans

00:49:53
with their own economic social and political
tensions in the region Cameroon the

00:50:00
region's main economic engine is dealing
with Boko Haram and its separatist crises

00:50:05
in 2 regions and tensions of a b.s.t.

00:50:09
To 7 years in power in Guinea an attempt
last year to overthrow president of Brown

00:50:16
who has been in power for 4 decades was
funded by his military and the Central

00:50:22
African Republic yet to stop the lies
since rebels of our 3 presidents there in

00:50:28
2013. Edwin Cusack. Video News

00:50:36
Yeah Lindy. Killing. Anything.

00:50:43
Really Eilish picked up

00:50:45
a new artist of the year at the
American Music Awards after

00:50:50
a fiery performance of her song all the
good girls go to hell she sung surrounded

00:50:55
by claims both real and projected on
giant screens Eilish also one favored

00:51:01
alternative artist earlier in the broadcast
thanking her creative team for letting

00:51:05
her do whatever she wanted to do she also
sang with her brother Phineas O'Connell

00:51:10
wearing an oversized shirt
that read no music on

00:51:14
a dead planet Eilish won the 1st
televised award of the night for favored

00:51:20
alternative artists Taylor Swift by the way
was nominated for Artist of the jacket

00:51:27
.

00:51:39
You've been listening to international
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News dot com We thank you very much for
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00:51:50
Carter and our engineer Jimmy cook I'm
Laurie London and Washington have

00:51:56
a wonderful day. Today.

00:52:25
The. Cream. Of the.

00:52:33
Thank you.

00:52:41
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00:52:57
It kind of.

00:53:17
Concealed the. Key. She.

00:53:25
Came in. To.

00:53:42
Say. Thank you.

00:53:51
Next an editorial reflecting the views
of the United States government for more

00:53:56
than half a century since its
founding in 1961 the u.s.

00:54:00
Agency for International Development or USA
id fulfilled its mission by sending to

00:54:05
developing countries material assistance
like food and medicine when u.s.

00:54:10
a Idea was created 3 out of every $4.00
that went from America to the developing

00:54:15
world will government money said USA id
administrator Mark Green these days that

00:54:20
number is less than one out of every
$10.00 global aid needs are many and

00:54:26
government funding will never be enough
said USA id deputy administrator Bonnie

00:54:31
Glick. So we have to work with the
private sector what we can do from

00:54:35
a government perspective is offer seed
capital that then gets catalyzed by

00:54:39
investors said Deputy Administrator Glick
yet there is more to it than just funding

00:54:45
we recognize that we do not have

00:54:46
a monopoly on the good solutions said Miss
Glick there are great solutions that are

00:54:50
generated everywhere on earth Take for
example the 5 year securing water for food

00:54:56
or swith and powering agriculture energy
grand challenges which enrolled 80

00:55:01
innovators from war than 40 countries to
develop more food with less water and use

00:55:06
renewable energy more efficiently the swift
innovators have helped 6300000 farmers

00:55:12
and their families produced nearly
$6000000.00 tons of food they leveraged more

00:55:17
than $20000000.00 in additional funding
through more than $300.00 partnerships

00:55:22
which helped reduce the need for future
donor assistance for these innovations they

00:55:27
have also generated 6 point $5000000.00 in
sales demonstrating profitability demand

00:55:32
in the market and sustainability that was
just the 1st step in late October deputy

00:55:38
administrator Glick announced that us

00:55:40
a id and his partners the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency and

00:55:45
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands will dedicate

00:55:49
$35000000.00 to kick off the water and
energy for food challenge this initiative

00:55:55
a logical experientially of the 2 earlier
challenges will increase the stain of

00:56:00
agriculture food security and climate
resilience in developing countries and

00:56:04
emerging markets it will focus on the
poor and women by investing in small

00:56:09
enterprise we expect that that capital
will increase that will crowd fund and

00:56:14
investment capital in at around $25000000.00
And then in the subsequent years it

00:56:20
will scale up the deputy administrator Glick
we're going to encourage organizations

00:56:25
individuals to submit to us concept
papers about how you would visualize

00:56:30
a solution to the problem that we. Around
the world or in an individual country

00:56:35
that are at the nexus of water energy
and food for more information visit h t

00:56:40
t p s call and forward
slash forwards that w

00:56:44
e 4 f dot org. Was an
editorial reflecting the

00:56:51
views of the United States government.

00:57:02
This is the way News I'm Tom. A massive
turnout. Of Sunday and district elections

00:57:09
seen as

00:57:09
a barometer of public support for pro-democracy
protests correspondent Julie Walker

00:57:16
vote counting was overseen by officials
the normally low key race for what

00:57:20
basically community representatives took
on new importance amid the protests that

00:57:25
have rocked the semi-autonomous Chinese
territory for more than 5 months Election

00:57:30
Commission Chairman Barnabus. Says 71
percent of the city's point 1000000

00:57:37
registered voters cast ballots well exceeding
the 47 percent turnout in the same

00:57:43
elections or years ago which earned
show pro democracy candidates taking

00:57:47
a significant number of
seats I'm Julie Walker u.s.

00:57:52
Defense secretary Mark esper has asked
Navy secretary Richard Spencer to resign

00:57:57
citing his handling of the case of

00:57:59
a Navy Seal accused of war crimes in Iraq
as brass for the resignation Sunday and

00:58:04
Spencer submitted the
requests involved the case of

00:58:07
a chief petty officer Edward Gallagher

00:58:09
a Navy Seal who was accused of war crimes
committed during his deployment to Iraq

00:58:14
in 2017 he was acquitted of the more serious
charges of murder but found guilty of

00:58:19
posing with the body of a teenaged
Islamic state militant as

00:58:23
a result he was demoted but u.s.

00:58:25
President Donald Trump intervened in that
case and pardon him and restored his rank

00:58:29
and pay Mr Trump learned last week. That
the Navy planned to bring Gallagher before

00:58:34
Review Board to determine if he could
continue to wear the Trident would signifies

00:58:38
membership of the elite commando unit he
intervened again with the tweet more than

00:58:42
3 dozen people are reported dead in

00:58:44
a series of security related incidents in
Afghanistan including a fatal attack on

00:58:49
a u.n.

00:58:49
Vehicle in the capital several of the
dead are civilians Afghan officials said

00:58:54
Sunday that the Taliban rebels
assaulted a security outpost and

00:58:57
a province overnight killing 8 soldiers
and wounding 4 others this is below

00:59:01
a news we move on to another week
of impeachment inquiry into u.s.

00:59:06
President Trump in with bad news then he
will have another Democratic challenger

00:59:11
more from the always

00:59:12
a rush President Trump dismissed the
merits of the investigation I think we had

00:59:17
a tremendous week with you know the great
hoax the of the good the of the hope and

00:59:23
that's really worked out. Incredibly well
and we have tremendous support Sunday

00:59:28
Democratic senator and presidential hopeful
Amy clubs who are some of the evidence

00:59:32
mandates a trial in the Senate this is
the global version of Watergate where

00:59:37
a president is trying to get there
and a political opponent from

00:59:42
a world leader that is basically what
happened here and so that's the case that

00:59:46
will be making. A former New York City
mayor in billionaire Michael Bloomberg

00:59:51
announced his can see for president of the
United States Bloomberg is one of more

00:59:56
than

00:59:56
a dozen candidates running for the Democratic
nomination Rajveer of the Saudi Arabia

01:00:01
way news Washington emergency officials in
the Democratic Republic of Congo solely

01:00:06
say at least 26 people died when an airplane
crash shortly after takeoff Sunday the

01:00:11
1000 seat aircraft operated by local
company busy bee crashed into

01:00:16
a residential area near Goma airport several
of the victims were on the ground when

01:00:21
the plane came down with already said all
17 and 2 crew members on board the flight

01:00:26
died as did 7 people on the ground security
forces used live ammunition into. Gas

01:00:32
to disperse protesters in southern Iraq
Sunday killing at least 13 people wounding

01:00:37
dozens more antigovernment protests have
been erupting all across the oil rich

01:00:41
south sense October is demonstrators
continue to demand an end to the corruption

01:00:46
and improved services and Basra Sunday 7
people were killed in what one security

01:00:52
official called one of the worst days of
the protest movement and 4 others were

01:00:56
killed in another province and a 2nd province
at a rock state news agency said u.s.

01:01:02
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
has been released from the hospital we

01:01:08
get more from a.p.

01:01:09
Correspondent Ben Thomas the Supreme Court
says the 86 year old justice is doing

01:01:14
well and has returned
to her Washington d.c.

01:01:16
Home Ginsburg spent 2 nights at Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where she was

01:01:21
taken Friday after experiencing chills
and fever the court says she received

01:01:25
intravenous antibiotics and fluids and that
her symptoms abated Ginsburg has had 4

01:01:30
occurrences of cancer including 2 in the
past year still her absences from the

01:01:35
court's public sessions have been rare
she did miss one earlier this month with

01:01:39
what the court said was a stomach bug Ben
Thomas Washington and find more Ed v.o.a.

01:01:44
News dot com Tommy McNeill the only news.

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